THE DESCENTAugust 4, 2006
STARRING
Shauna MacDonald as SARAH
Natalie Mendoza as JUNA
Alex Reid as BETH
Saskia Mulder as REBECCA
MyAnna Buring as SAM
Nora-Jane Noone as HOLLY
Studio: Lion’s Gate
Directed by: Neil Marshall
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An Interview with Neil Marshall, director of “The Descent”
BY KEVIN CARR
Neil Marshall is the director of the new horror film “The Descent.” Kevin talks with Neil about how the film came about, what inspired the work and possible news of a “Dog Soldiers” sequel. Excepts from the interview follow.
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7M: WHAT DREW YOU TO THIS PROJECT?
I was looking to do something really scary after my first film. My first film, “Dog Soldiers,” had come out more as a black comedy than a straight horror film, and I still had this hankering to fulfill the need to do a really, really dark and bleak horror film in the vision of horror films I grew up with and loved, and still love. Things like “John Carpenter’s The Thing” and “Deliverance” and “Alien.”
7M: WHY DID YOU CHOOSE AN ALL FEMALE CAST?
Just to be different, really. I thought it was something that was contemporary. I thought it was something that was unique, certainly within this genre of brutal action horror film. I thought it’d never been done before. I thought it’d be interesting to try something fresh, and I thought why not in this day and age.
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